Seems to me the content providers should be the side paying.]]>While we're removing the Oscars ...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150222/15540130107/apparently-best-way-to-decrease-movie-piracy-is-to-get-rid-oscars.shtml#c407
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:54:08 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150222/15540130107/apparently-best-way-to-decrease-movie-piracy-is-to-get-rid-oscars.shtml#c407Getting rid of the Oscars would free about 10,000 hours of TV time and think of the newsprint saved.

But removing movies and music from copyright would sure help. They got it wrong in the early 1900s when they added them. When I was a programmer early in my career, I got paid once for the program, not each time it was executed, which is what happens for movies and music.]]>Ben Franklinhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150214/07124330021/apple-ceo-tim-cook-makes-it-clear-that-hes-not-all-interested-giving-government-backdoors-to-ios-encryption.shtml#c429
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:17:30 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150214/07124330021/apple-ceo-tim-cook-makes-it-clear-that-hes-not-all-interested-giving-government-backdoors-to-ios-encryption.shtml#c429 Benjamin Franklin,

US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)]]>Re: Terrorists use encryption.https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150215/07152330024/president-obama-im-big-believer-encryption.shtml#c725
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:13:14 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150215/07152330024/president-obama-im-big-believer-encryption.shtml#c725Government uses encryption.Therefore, Government is a Terrorist.]]>Roots of today's AT&Thttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20150107/08400729620/with-rollover-data-att-just-keeps-walking-face-first-into-t-mobile-attempts-to-make-it-look-stupid.shtml#c181
Fri, 9 Jan 2015 06:13:39 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20150107/08400729620/with-rollover-data-att-just-keeps-walking-face-first-into-t-mobile-attempts-to-make-it-look-stupid.shtml#c181Yep, Cellular One has gotten at least a few to forget they just changed names and logo when they bought the real MaBell's mobile.

Hey fellows, today's AT&T is not the same as Ma Bell and the seven dwarfs, it is the [still] stupid renamed Cellular One.]]>Re: Re: Why is this idiot still in his position?https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150107/16385529625/maryland-council-member-kirby-delauter-admits-he-was-wrong-to-threaten-to-sue-newspaper-using-his-name.shtml#c362
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:23:37 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150107/16385529625/maryland-council-member-kirby-delauter-admits-he-was-wrong-to-threaten-to-sue-newspaper-using-his-name.shtml#c362Tho he'll probably get re-elected by his more stupid constituents.]]>long copyrightshttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141229/13390429545/how-copyright-forced-filmmaker-to-rewrite-martin-luther-king.shtml#c55
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:53:28 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141229/13390429545/how-copyright-forced-filmmaker-to-rewrite-martin-luther-king.shtml#c55Ditto for patents and no patents for software or living items. Patents should be licensed to all comers at reasonable rates. No patent if government funded.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141219/09440829488/google-files-legal-challenge-to-attorney-general-jim-hoods-subpoenas.shtml#c497
Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:16:52 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141219/09440829488/google-files-legal-challenge-to-attorney-general-jim-hoods-subpoenas.shtml#c497Google strikes backhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141218/17222229484/more-evidence-revealed-hollywoods-chummy-relationship-with-state-attorney-general-even-as-he-plays-dumb.shtml#c27
Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:44:06 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141218/17222229484/more-evidence-revealed-hollywoods-chummy-relationship-with-state-attorney-general-even-as-he-plays-dumb.shtml#c27http://goo.gl/pn6zHY]]>Censorshiphttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/07360229413/surprise-spanish-newspapers-beg-government-eu-to-stop-google-news-shutting-down.shtml#c414
Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:00:55 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/07360229413/surprise-spanish-newspapers-beg-government-eu-to-stop-google-news-shutting-down.shtml#c414.. and they're terrible in predicting repair times ...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141114/04521929135/comcast-ceo-still-pretending-his-companys-horrible-satisfaction-ratings-are-just-normal-part-being-so-huge.shtml#c352
Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:20:15 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141114/04521929135/comcast-ceo-still-pretending-his-companys-horrible-satisfaction-ratings-are-just-normal-part-being-so-huge.shtml#c352Not a Monkey selfiehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140806/07044228126/photographer-still-insisting-he-holds-copyright-photo-monkey-threatens-to-sue-wikimedia.shtml#c495
Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:28:56 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140806/07044228126/photographer-still-insisting-he-holds-copyright-photo-monkey-threatens-to-sue-wikimedia.shtml#c495Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140801/06493928083/what-makes-you-tell-others-about-techdirt.shtml#c220
Sat, 2 Aug 2014 11:57:52 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140801/06493928083/what-makes-you-tell-others-about-techdirt.shtml#c220Monopoly another wayhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140726/10180428015/quantifying-comcasts-monopoly-power.shtml#c51
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 16:52:44 PDThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140726/10180428015/quantifying-comcasts-monopoly-power.shtml#c51With the VERY large % of the set top boxes provided by Comca$t where is the market for a innovative box?]]>